LATEST ENGLISH NEWS. (From the Colonial Observer.)

Daily Southern Cross, Volume 2, Issue 66, 20 July 1844, Page 4

LATEST ENGLISH NEWS. (From the Colonial Observer.)

Tiie Georgetown, barque, Captain Bell, arrived here on Saturday eyening last, having left the Downs on the 5th March. She is the second of the series of monthly mail packets, having taken the place of the Superior, which was taken off the berth. The Georgetovm brought a very large mail, consisting of eleven bags, which, however, from the scanty arrangements at the Post Office, have been very gradually issued to the public. The .intelligence received is highly important. The Irish State Trials have at

length been terminated, and a verdict of Guilty has been found against the Traversers. The trials lasted twenty-five days, having closed on Monday, Feb. 12. The charge of the Chief Justice occupied two days in its delivery, and the Jury retired to consider their verdict at 4, r.M., on Saturday, the 10th. They returned after some hours, and presented a verdict, which, however, was imperfect, there being no finding on several of tho counts. They did not return with a complete verdict till after 12 o'clock on Saturday night, when the counsel for the defendants objected to the verdict being given on Sunday, and the unfortunate jury were, consequently, locked up till Monday morning, when they delivered their verdict in due form. The Chief Justice then discharged tho jury, thanking them for their attendance during the long and painful investigation, and regretting that it was not in his power to order them any compensation. On the first day of next term (25th April) a four-day rule for judgment will be served on the traversers, and at the expiration of the rule, the Attorney-General will move the Court for judgment. From a manifesto published by O'Connell, however, it appears that ho is determined to resist to the uttermost. A writ of error will be sued for on the part of the traversers, which must be argued before twelve Judges, and from their decision an appeal will lie to the House of Lords. The Court may, however, executo immediate judgment, without waiting for these issues to bo tried. The grounds on which the traversers rely are ridiculously flimsy, and cannot'have the slightest weight in themselves ; they give, however, an opportunity to O'Connell to have the wholo case argued before the highest tribunals, and an opportunity to those tribunals of acquitting the whole sot, if they are not satisfied of their guilt. O'Connell, in his address " To the People of Ireland," counsels them to preserve order, and confidently assures them that they shall have the Parliament in College Green again. So far as we can gather, his admonitions have been listened to, no outbreak of any kind having as yet occurred. The great man himself started immediately for London, and took his seat in the House of Commons, where ho presented no less than 196 petitions from various parts of the world, bearing an aggregate of 387,300 signatures, praying for a repeal of tho Union. Two very animated debates had taken place in Parliament, that in the House of Lords being occasioned by the motion of the Marquis of Normanby for a Committee to enquire into the state of Ireland, which was lost by a majority of 175 to 97. A similar motion by Lord John Russell in tho House of Commons met with a similar fate, the Ministers having a majority of 99 in a house of 549 members. In answer to a question on tho subjoct of Her Majesty's alleged embarrassments, Sir Robert Peel declared that there was not the slightest foundation for the report, the civil list not being burdened with one farthing of debt. Tahiti. — Our readers will, we feel assured, participate in our feelings of satisfaction at the restoration to Queen Pomare of her sovereignty of Tahiti. The following letter was addressed by that unfortunate Queen to Louis Philippe : — " Tahiti, Nov. 9, 1842. " O King, — I have been deprivod in these days of my government. My sovereignty lias been violated, and your admiral has taken possession (arm in hand) of my territory, because I have been accused of not observing the treaty concluded on the 9th Sept., 1842. " It never was my intention, in putting the crown on my flag, to condemn the said treaty or to insult you, 0 King. " I suppose you do not consider the fact of my having displayed the crown in my flag a crime. Your admiral only demanded the change of a trifling part, but if I had consented to that, my sovereignty would have been despised by the great chiefs. " I know not neither of any part of the treaty which determines the naturo of mj> flag. i' I protest formally against the severe measures taken by your admiral ; but I have confidence in you, and I look for my deliver ance from your compassion, from your justice, and your goodness for a Sovereign without power. "My prayer is this: may the Almighty soften your heart — may you recognise the justice of my demand — and may you return to me the sovereignty and the government of my ancestors. '' Be kind to me, 0 King, and may your reign be flourishing. This is my prayer. " Pomare." The result of this communication, and of the official despatches forwarded by the Admiral, was, that the French Government repudiated the conduct of Dv Petit Thouars, which was characterised by M. Guizot, as "destitute of prudence and wisdom" — he

might have added, "and of common humanity also." The opponents of the French King's Ministers and their Journals had, however, opened out in full cry against the course pursued, -which they called " truckling to England !" Inthellouso of Lords, Lord Aberdeen, in reply to a motion for papers by Lord Brougham, declared that the disavowal of the Admiral's conduct had been the sole and voluntary act of the French Government, uninfluenced by any representation whatever from the British Government. Obituary. — His Serene Highness, the Grand Duko of Saxo Coburg and Gotha, father to Princo Albert, and uncle to Her Majesty, expired suddenly, from cramp in the stomach, on the 29th Jan. The details of the Earl of Besborough, Viscount Sidmouth, Lord Douglas, and Viscount Glentworth, are also recorded. Trade. — Speculation appeared to be increasing, and money was very plentiful. Ralway shares were at a high premium, andi several new lines were in contemplation. We do not find that any Wool sales had been"advortised for March, but the generally improved state of trade would probably cause a farther increase beyond that of 2d. per lb., effected at the February sales. The "Moniteur" contains tho following: — "Government have received despatches from the island of Tahiti, dated 1st and 9th November, 1842. Vice- Admiral Dupetit Thouars, who arrived in the Bay of Papeiti on the 1st of November to carry into oxecution the treaty of the 9th of September, 1842, which the King had ratified, deemed it his duty not to adhere to tho stipulations of that treaty, but to take possession of the island. Queen Pomare has written to the King to demand the fulfilment of the stipulations of the treaty which assured to her the internal sovereignty of her country, and to pray that she may be maintained in her rights. — The King, by the advise of his Council, not finding in the circumstances reported sufficient grounds for abandoning the treaty of tho 9th of September, 1842, has ordered the pure and simple execution of that treaty, and tho establishment of tho French Protectorate in that island." The Queen of Spain has been declared major. This event must materially affect the form of future political changes in Spain, but in what, manner it yet impossible to conjecture. Reports were in circulation in Paris that the abdication of Don Cai'los in favour of his son was positively about being published. The maariage of that Prince with the Queen of Spain would, say the same rumours, immediately follow. Ingenious Mode of Capturing a Tiger. — I was on a botanical tour in the north of India, not very far from tho territories of his Majesty of the Oude, when the man in whoso house I was lodging told me that a tiger had been tracked to his haunt, and that he was to be killed in the course of the day, after the manner of their forefathers, if I pleased to see it. Of course, I did please to see it ; and, accordingly, towards evening, found myself, with half a dozen natives, perched up in a tree, which commanded a capital view of a dark out-of-the-way place, where ho assured me he was sure to come. I could see no preparation for taking him, but they explained to mo that the ground all about was covered with leaves, tho upper side of which were smeared with bird-lime, and that if he once trod on one of these leaves ho was done ; nothing could save him. Well, sir, by and by, down came a thumping royal tiger, swaggering along as if the whole place belonged to him, which, indeed, might have been the case, so far as nobody being inclined to dispute it with him ; and, sure enough,-ho had not gone five paces before he did pick up a leaf upon his fore paw. He stopped dead short, lifted up his paw and took a squint at it as if he did not much like the look of it, and he afterwards gave it a bit of a shake — a sort of a gentle pat that would have knocked over a bullock like a ninepin. The leaf remained, and the nextthing he did was to rub it against his jaw, where it stuck. He got into a passion, but, as all this time he had been picking up more leaves, the more he tried to remove them from his face the more of them stuck there. They got into his nostrils and drove him half mad. 'They began to get into and cover his eyes, and almost blinded him ; and, during all this time, the natives round about mo were in a state of the highest delight, grinning and chattering like so many monkeys. All of a sudden he gave a frightful yell, and took a roll on the ground, that, of course, covering him half over with them, howled most hideously, and, by this time, he got his eyes quite stopped up with them ; and, after a few minutes of this sort of tarring and feathering process, he was considered to be so completely deprived of all power of self defence, that one of the natives just walked up to him, and let an ounce ball into his liear^ as coolly as you'd shoot a jack-snipe. — Harry Moxohray,